Forest Whitaker
Birthday: 1961-07-15
Place of Birth: Longview, Texas, USA
Biography: Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, director, and activist. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. After making his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Whitaker went on to earn a reputation for intensive character study work for films, such as Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bird (1988), The Crying Game (1992), Phenomenon (1996), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Great Debaters (2007), The Butler (2013), Arrival (2016), and Respect (2021). He has also appeared in blockbusters, such as Panic Room (2002), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Saw Gerrera, and Black Panther (2018) as Zuri. For his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the British historical drama film The Last King of Scotland (2006), Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Whitaker made his directorial debut with the television film Strapped (1993), and directed the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Hope Floats (1998), and First Daughter (2004). Apart from his film career, Whitaker is also known for his humanitarian work and activism. In 2011, he was inducted as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, later receiving a promotion to Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and serves as the CEO of Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), a non-profit outreach program.
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Blown Away
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove le...
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Johnny Handsome
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Street Kings
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Smoke
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The Last King of Scotland
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
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Good Morning, Vietnam
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Phone Booth
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Prêt-à-Porter
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Panic Room
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Body Snatchers
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in ord...
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
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Battlefield Earth
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The Marsh
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Jason's Lyric
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships wit...
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Body Count
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The Crying Game
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Bloodsport
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Vantage Point
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Repo Men
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Bird
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The Color of Money
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Hurricane Season
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Article 99
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Phenomenon
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Species
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high sc...
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Our Family Wedding
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The Air I Breathe
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Green Dragon
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The Great Debaters
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A Rage in Harlem
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
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A Little Trip to Heaven
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Downtown
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-con...
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The Experiment
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American Gun
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and ...
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My Own Love Song
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Consenting Adults
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Winged Creatures
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
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Where the Wild Things Are
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Mary
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Deacons for Defense
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Lullaby for Pi
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America
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Powder Blue
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Light It Up
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Even Money
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys e...
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Diary of a Hitman
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Repentance
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Last Light
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Lush Life
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Feast of All Saints
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Catch.44
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The Fourth Angel
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The Last Stand
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The Enemy Within
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Witness Protection
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Serving Life
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Freelancers
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The Butler
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A Dark Truth
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Out of the Furnace
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Pawn
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Zulu
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Black Nativity
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Two Men in Town
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Criminal Justice
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Taken 3
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Big George Foreman
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to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor....
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Southpaw
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Making of Phone Booth
Behind the scenes documentary of the Joel T. Schumacher film Phone Booth....
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Prophets of Change
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Everyone's Hero
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Arrival
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the milita...
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The Misbehavers
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Dope
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college ap...
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Mysteries of the Unseen World
Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...
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Odyssey in Rome
Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obst...
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a ne...
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Stakeout
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when s...
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career ...
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Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Hungry for an A-list interview that could launch him into the gossip-page stratosphere, Jiminy Glick...
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The Follow
The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor's wife. During his tailing...
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Sewing Hope
For 25 years Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army terrorized Northern Uganda. Children were st...
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The King of Kings
Charles Dickens tells his young son Walter the greatest story ever told, and what begins as a bedtim...
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from the...
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I Am You
In Peace We Trust. This documentary shows us how animal rights and human rights & the environmen...
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Bank Robber
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to br...
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Black Panther
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to s...
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Burden
Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subse...
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Finding Steve McQueen
In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal ...
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City of Lies
Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest ca...
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Ripple Effect
Believing that bad karma is keeping him from realizing his dream, hip clothing designer Amer Atrash ...
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Tag: The Assassination Game
Pretending to do research for his newspaper, college student Alex Marsh teams up with the somewhat o...
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The Forgiven
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption....
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Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
Whenever the phrase "breaking the color line" is used, there's a temptation to invoke Jackie Robinso...
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A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
A documentary about the making of Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film, Platoon (1986)....
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Platoon
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...
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How It Ends
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event tu...
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Sorry to Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical...
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The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is a 2017 documentary detailing the produc...
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Vision Quest
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain ...
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First Daughter
Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a gr...
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Respect
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous grandda...
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Shooting 'Panic Room'
Watch David Fincher's journey of the filming process for Panic Room (2002) in this interesting docum...
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Before the Music Dies
B4MD tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel ...
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Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to t...
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Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
A documentary about the making of Jim Jarmusch's 1999 film GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, includ...
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Mr. Holland's Opus
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy....
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Rising from Ashes
“Rising from Ashes” is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan National Cycling Team and...
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Food Chains
This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing ...
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Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniv...
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film ...
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Havoc
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city...
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A Fall from Grace
Detective Michael Tabb knows the city he protects inside and out. He has felt its true heart, as muc...
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Seaweed Stories
Presented by Lonely Whale in association with Re:wild. Narrated by Forest Whitaker, Seaweed Stories ...
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Four Dogs Playing Poker
With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valu...
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Rose's Baby
Álvaro and his ex-wife Saffron attempt to set aside the drama of their messy divorce for the sake of...
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Making a Scene | 11 Performances
The year's best performers star in 11 original (very) short films directed by Oscar-winning cinemato...
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